It is bewildering to me on…

It is bewildering to me on several fronts that the province is choosing to interfere in municipal affairs such as local road design. It is even more bewildering that the province is ignoring its own data as well as those of municipalities to drive these decisions. Data from emergency services, local businesses payment processors, and municipalities all support the provision of safe alternate options to driving private vehicles, such as protected bike lanes. Spending money to rip out perfectly functional existing infrastructure seems like a colossal waste of public money, and runs counter to any notion of fiscal conservatism that the Ontario PC Party pretends to aspire to.

If Minister Sarkaria finds driving a single-occupancy vehicle from Brampton to Queen's Park to be too onerous a commute, he should avail himself of the GO Transit and TTC option that exists between Brampton and Queen's Park. Should that option prove lacking, then improving the quality of service on regional transit actually *is* something within his purview at the MTO. Perhaps the provincial government should instead focus on fixing transit and delivering longe overdue projects like the Eglinton LRT, instead of trying to distract the public by sticking its nose into municipal matters like the design of local roads.